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Horse Deltahing Whffletree.

No. 242,136. Patented May 31, v1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON JUNE, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDAR V. HOWLAND, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSE-DETACHING WHIFFLETREE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,136, dated May 31, 1881. Application tiled April 2, 1881. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON JUNE, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have iuvented an Improved Horse-Detachin g Whittletree, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

My object is to make a compact, neat, and efficient rotating whifiietree, and one that is secure from accidental displacement and is readily operated; and my invention consists in the mode of doing this,as will be apparent as I describe it.

Figure l is an elevation of my whiftletree attached to the cross-bar of the shafts of a single-horse vehicle. Fig.l 2 is au enlarged View of the whifdetree ring, swivel, and bolt, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the last igure.

In the drawings, a is the whiftletree, and b b' the trace-hooks; and c is the ring in which Athe whiffletree turns, having the lower part shaped to and constituting the usual swivelplate o', which turns in the ordinary manner in the groove or grooves of the cross-bar plate d, secured by the bolt cto the cross-barf.

About the whifletree is the metallic ring g, fast to and turning with the Whiftletree, and the rotation consequently is between the ring g and the swivel-based ring c.

The whiftietree having been slipped through the ring c, an aperture cut in the ring g is brought beneath the slot c, when the lever t' is driven through the aperture and linto thewhifdetree and slightly bent against the inside of the ring g, and is thus secured in its place, while at the same time it holds the Whiftletree to the ring c. This lever is a few inches long and has in its end an aperture in.

which is inserted a small cord, which reaches to any convenient place in the Vehiclebody.

In-Figs. 1 and 2 the lever is shown in the quarter-revolution-that is, when the horse is drawing the vehicle the lever rests ath. When, as in Figs. l and 2, tho lever is half drawn back it appears as shown, and is thus represented in order to show more clearly the lever. When fully drawn back thc lever rests on the lower rear extremity of the slot, at which point the trace-hooks b are inclined forward, and the horse is detached. When the trace-hooks are as in Fig. l the rest of the rotation will be accomplished by the draft of the horse., whether aided by the cord or not.

ln Fig. 3 the same facts are shown, the solid lines being the lever in the front extremity of the slot, and the upper dotted lines the place shown in Figs. l and 2, and the left-hand or rear dotted lines the full detach mentpoint.

My invention is singularly simple and efficient, since in a light buggy, for example, the whifiietree is made of a plain turned round piece of wood, as shown, an inch in diameter at the trace-ends, and an inch and a quarter at its middle, where is the ring g. The slotted swivel-ring c. if neatly fitted, needs a lever only three to ve inches long. The cord need be but a quarter of au inch in diameter, and the best place forit to pass is through the bottom ofthe vehicle-box and terminate near the whip-holder socket, whereiti s as easily grasped as is the whip. Use of it shows that it needs only the weight of the lever to hold the whiffletree in draft, and but a slight pull to rotate` the whiffletree and detach the horse. SO useful is it that it is used by many in detachin g the horse whenever the return to the stable is made, as well asin case of the horse becoming nnmanageable. A

I claiml. The combination of the ring g fast to the whifletree, the slotted and swivel-based ring c, bolt c, and lever t', effecting the rotation of the whiftletree, as described.

.2. The ring g, slotted and swivel-based ring c, bolt e, and lever t', when further combined with the cross-bar for evener of a double team, as described.

SOLOMON JUNE.

Witnesses S. J. PARKER, R. F. I ARKER. 

